I was trolling through the Kobo store and had to do a double take when I saw this:
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Willi...PlFQ4-W0Qg&r=1
Seriously? Star Wars rewritten in iambic pentameter?
I saw that it was eligible for a promo code, and found a 50% off in the ol' Kobo Discounts Thread, so I thought five bucks was worth it just to see.
I was very, very pleasantly surprised!
I love Shakespeare, and I'm a huge Star Wars geek, and boy, did this book just "work". It's brilliantly written, and seriously worth a look if you love either the Bard, or classic Star Wars or both. (Especially both!)
With such gems as:
"LUKE: Nay, thou art sure misled, O wise one, for
My father hath not fought in any wars.
Full many evenings as I lay abed
Such tales I heard of him I never knew:
A navigator on a freighter ship
Which carried fragrant spices hence to yon
My father was. He kneweth naught of wars."
and :
"TROOPER 4: Pray, show me now thy papers.
OBI-WAN: Nay, thou dost
Not need to see his papers.
TROOPER 4: Nay, we do
Not need to see his papers.
OBI-WAN: True it is,
That these are not the droids for which thou search’st.
TROOPER 3: Aye, these are not the droids for which we search.
OBI-WAN: And now, the lad may go his merry way.
TROOPER 3: Good lad, I prithee, go thy merry way!
OBI-WAN: Now get thee hence.
TROOPER 4: Now get thee hence, go hence!"
I read the whole thing last night and laughed out loud often.
Definitely worth a couple bucks.
-AC